NPC offers data to support NEDC’s effort to reduce out-of-school children

The National Population Commission (NPC) has offered to supply information enactment to the North East Development Commission (NEDC) to trim out-of-school children from the street.

Chairman of NPC, Nasir Isa Kwarra, who made this connection connected Monday successful Abuja erstwhile helium led his absorption squad connected a courtesy sojourn to the NEDC liaison office, noted further that the information volition besides assistance the committee assistance the authorities successful its efforts to trim the fig of out-of-school children successful the region.

Kwarra noted that the committee would besides supply ongoing enactment to guarantee that the NEDC tin efficaciously utilize demographic information successful its operations, adding that the NPC volition further supply baseline information that tin beryllium utilized for monitoring and evaluating the interaction of NEDC’s projects successful the region.

The NPC brag further revealed that the committee volition assistance the NEDC successful conducting household surveys and socio-economic assessments to stitchery information connected surviving conditions, health, education, and more.

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He stated that the concern volition besides code climate-related challenges with demographic insights and make broad geospatial maps of the North East that item colonisation density, infrastructure, and assets distribution.

He noted that the committee volition usage mapping to place precedence areas for intervention, ensuring that NEDC’s efforts are targeted and efficient.

“NPC is charged with the work of generating information for the country. Field works are presently going connected particularly successful areas of commencement registration,” helium said.

“We are connected apical of our cognition concerning census that is conducted each 10 years. We person information of each gathering successful the state that we tin usage to enactment immoderate authorities agency.

“We undertake postulation of information that volition assistance agencies connected situation and clime change. NEDC arsenic an involution bureau we privation to enactment intimately with you.

“You tin inquire for circumstantial country you privation america to enactment successful our questionnaire successful respect to the portion due to the fact that we privation concern successful the younker demography owed to the that deficiency of concern successful youthful population.

“Alot of Almajiris are connected the street, we tin supply information to instrumentality them retired of the thoroughfare and beryllium productive to the state and summation Nigeria’s GDP and income.”

The Managing Director of NEDC, Mohammed Alkali, who acknowledged the value of colonisation information noted that the NEDC worth data, adding that the committee has a precise bully root of data.

“Population is precise important. We successful the North East Development Commission, we worth information precise well. We are precise bully root of data.  So, it is indispensable that we cooperate to heighten synergy successful doing our enactment truthful that we bash not request to discarded clip looking for information elsewhere.”